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by beagle3 2423 days ago
That _is_ the nim name. It's just case-and-underscore insensitive so you definitely can if your editor is Nim aware (at the very least emacs, vim and vscode have been aware for a long time; nimgrep is a command line tool similar to grep that is aware of nim's sensitivity rules.

You don't have to agree, you don't have to like it, you don't have to use Nim, and you don't have to think it's a good idea. But any reasonable sampling of real world use shows that it's not a bad technical decision. I don't think it shows it's a great technical decision either; It just shows that it's acceptable and comparable in mental and operational burden to any other decision.

It seems whether it is a little better or a little worse, it will take years of experiment to get any kind of statistical significance.

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> That _is_ the nim name.

Well, a nim name; there is no the nim name.

> you don't have to use Nim,

That would be the lucky situation for now; if we band together and write cogent criticisms, we may be able to keep it that way going forward.